Word: pita
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...painted pig in the market of Cuernavaca." At Mexico City Mrs. Morrow met Artist d'Harnoncourt who showed her his famed collection of 850 Mexican toys. She begged him to write a story about them. Instead he illustrated the book which she wrote. The story: Pita, "a little Indian girl who lived in Mexico between the smoking mountains and the cactus with red flowers," and her brother Pedro go to the market place...
...painted clay pig bank. Pita has a pig, Pedro wants one like it. Pancho, the toyman (drawn from a mason who worked on the Morrow weekend abode at Cuernavaca) has no pigs, tries to sell them instead straw horses, jumping jacks, grotesque clowns, birds shaped from polished gourds. Disappointed, Pedro tries to make a pig himself, fails miserably. After many months Pancho makes Pedro a special pig. Specimen of the text: "He [Pita's pig] was painted yellow, with pink roses on his back and a tiny rosebud on his tail. He looked fat, but he was fed nothing...